Comment by sgjohnson
3 years ago
Because it’s easy to prosecute. You got the suspect dead to rights, with $20 worth of whatever on their person.
And it’s not like those cases even go to trial. I don’t have the exact data on hand, but I’d be seriously surprised if >90% of small-time drug crimes ended up with a plea deal that most of the time doesn’t even involve pleading guilty to a felony.
> Because it’s easy to prosecute. You got the suspect dead to rights, with $20 worth of whatever on their person.
Police regularly spend countless man-hours investigating people for selling $20 worth of marijuana. Those are not open and shut cases, they have to spend time building cases, use confidential informants or undercover officers to gather damning evidence that won't be thrown out in court, etc.
Drug cases mean seizing assets.
They regularly go after teens and young people with no assets who are selling pot to their friends.
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